[SG, FMA] Tyrannids

G'day,

Lachy is 8 today and thanks to his baby sister and kind gaming buddies of
ours, who had old figs they didn't want, Lachy now has about 8 squads of
Tyrannids. So does any one have an conversions done or do I start going wild
thinking about "acid darts" from their bioguns etc?

Thanks

> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

> Lachy is 8 today and thanks to his baby sister and kind gaming buddies

Happy Birthday, Lachy! (How many screaming 8-year-olds did you have
tearing around the house, Beth?):>

There used to be some SG2 Tyranid rules at

http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md8maal/index.html

...but I can't even get the server to respond, never mind the page.

There are a number of active pages with 'Aliens' aliens rules -
including
my own - but that was the only full Tyranid page I heard of.

Does anyone know who owns/owned it, and does someone have those rules
floating around their hard drive?

Interesting, Talia turns 8 next Saturday. I have a platoon of Galoob Star
Wars(tm) minis based for her<G>

On topically... Wonder what the SG Stats for a squad of SW Storm Troopers
would be.

Magic

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Happy Birthday Lachy!

Found this a while ago while looking about for Stargrunt Starship Troopers
stuff:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/1323/rules3.html

It's a 40 K conversion that has some Tyranid stuff. Can't comment on the
quality as I've only skimmed it.

There was another I recall that had red text on a black background. Devoted
strictly to Tyranids but I didn't book mark it and cannot find it now.

Bob

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There are 40k conversions at
http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/rlpowell/stargrunt.html, but no
Tyranids.
:-(

Andrew Cowell has some posted by Bobby Mock at
http://www.cowell.org/~andy/min/sg2/var.html, but they are pretty bare
bones.

I would be very interested to see that as well, seeing as how I have a big
collection of Tyranids as well.

> On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 20:28, Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

> On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 07:28 PM, Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

> Lachy is 8 today and thanks to his baby sister and kind gaming buddies

> of

Happy birthday Lachy.  February is a great month - unfortunately mine
occurred on the 5th, the same day of the funeral for my wife's grandmother.

Don't forget the modifications of the close assault rules, mods that'll make
those PA soliders think twice about letting those bugs get close.

> Bob Makowsky wrote:

Untrained 1s.:) Never leave a doomed fight, but can't hit anything to save
their lives.

"These blasts are too accurate for Sand People. Only Imperial Storm Troopers
are this accurate." - SW-ANH

Translation: Storm Troopers CAN hit the side of a barn (or in this case a Jawa
Transport), but nothing smaller.

One answer to their horrible aim is that they use a blaster with a tremendous
amount of recoil since they are unable to get a grouping of less than 6 feet
from ranges of less than 100 feet.

Another possibility is that having worn a stormtrooper helmet prop, the vision
bubbles are so horribly small that I suspect that their inaccuracy is more
likely due to the fact that they can't see worth squat. (i.e. in the movies,
you rarely see a stormtrooper try to aim by bringing the blaster to eye level.
I think that due to some imperial oversight, a high tech, very expensive optic
system was incoporated into the stormtrooper armor (as a favor to a high
ranking senator with military contracts) that really doesn't work. After
purchasing millions of such units, the Empire could not openly admit that it
had made a mistake and continues to promote the use of the system.

I would also like to point out that the rebels in general don't seem to have
much better aim (i.e. the opening sequence where the troopers enter the
Corellian corvette.)

--Binhan

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> Binhan wrote:

> Another possibility is that having worn a stormtrooper helmet prop, the

> vision bubbles are so horribly small that I suspect that their
in
> the movies, you rarely see a stormtrooper try to aim by bringing the

> armor (as a favor to a high ranking senator with military contracts)
that
> really doesn't work. After purchasing millions of such units, the

Make that an electro-optical system - camera in the gun sight, sight
picture projected on the helmet HUD or retina. No need to bring the blaster
up to eye level at all. Such systems are in development now, BTW -
George Lucas couldn't have known about them when he made the first movies, of
course, but given what we know today it makes sense <g>

But I agree, the camera/HUD system used by the Stormtroopers was very
obviously made by the lowest bidder <g>

Later,

Hi,

One easy modification would be to make tyranid close assault troops immune to
suppression. Fits with the background and would make them able to close with
the humans very quickly.

> On Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 06:24 AM, Kevin Walker wrote:

> On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 07:28 PM, Beth.Fulton@csiro.au

> of

G'day,

> February is a great month - unfortunately mine

Well Happy Birthday despite the sad circumstances.

G'day,

> Happy Birthday, Lachy!

Passed all these on and he says "Thanks";)

> (How many screaming 8-year-olds did you have

We had

1x62
1x21+ (Grandma)
1x35 1x28 1x8 1x7 1x6 1x5 1x4 1x1.5 1x0.19

And that was more than enough already;)

Thanks for all the rules help

G'day,

> Interesting, Talia turns 8 next Saturday. I have a platoon

Both subscribe to the same school then hey?;)

Lachy and Janneke are painting most of their figs (they do the base colour
stuff, then I pick out the details and then they flock) and its working out
well.

Have fun, and Happy Birthday to Talia.

On Friday, February 08, 2002 12:50 PM, Beth.Fulton@csiro.au
> [SMTP:Beth.Fulton@csiro.au] wrote:

With an average age of 13.66 years, I'm surprised you're still sane.
;-)

G'day,

> With an average age of 13.66 years, I'm surprised you're

Please see others' comments on this matter in the recent thread on this topic
;P;)

> At 01:08 8/02/02 +1100, you wrote:

Did I ever say that I was sane?;)

Cheers

Beth,

Thanks I will pass that on to her when I am up there next week.

I have not started painting with Talia and Noah yet. I was going to follow
your plan, they base, I finish then they flock. Once I get back to the States
I will have more time with them and I hope to get some painting in.

Bob

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